It’s difficult to know if your symptoms are HI or indeed low Estrogen. I now have very dry fragile thin skin through lack of Estrogen and have developed eczema, I thought allergy at first but no it’s because of how sensitive and fragile my skin has become and now on steroid treatment. I found antihistamines were making the dryness worse and didn’t help the itch at all. We need Estrogen to produce collagen.
It can drive us mad trying to find out what is causing all of our symptoms and spending lots of money in the process.
Before peri menopause symptoms and when your own Estrogen was higher did you have symptoms of HI?
In early peri I started with hay fever, dry eyes, gum problems, joint pains, muscles pain, bladder frequency, all these symptoms would come and go but they would be there before and during my period when Estrogen was at its lowest but I didn’t realise at the time it was from my hormone decline.
It may turn out that it’s actually more Estrogen that you need.